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Walsall

Polluted by sewage 219 times in 2025 lasting 315 hours

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Totals for Walsall in 2025

27 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water

219 sewage dumps

315 hours duration

That's 1.88 weeks. 4.2 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Walsall in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this place all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	DARLASTON ROAD CSO	11	37	100
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	DEVON ROAD	10	27	100
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	NORTH WILLENHALL - BENTLEY RD CSO	7	25	92.3
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	RAY HALL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	9	24	65.8
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	BESCOT CRESCENT CSO	11	24	100
Severn Trent Water	Sneyd Brook	PRIMLEY AVENUE SSO	12	24	99.8
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	BESCOT ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	3	22	100
Severn Trent Water	Ford Brook	GREEN LANE/BEATRICE STREET JCT CSO	28	20	100
Severn Trent Water	Not Defined	200YDS WEST OF RAILWAY	6	18	99.9
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	POPLAR ROAD CSO	8	14	100
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	BIRMINGHAM ROAD CSO	21	9	99.3
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	BESCOT CRES/BROCKHURST CRESCENT CSO	7	8	100
Severn Trent Water	Ford Brook	WEDNESBURY ROAD/OXFORD STREET CSO	13	6	100
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	BROADWAY (GOLF COURSE) CSO	6	6	91.7
Severn Trent Water	Ford Brook	PORTLAND STREET CSO	12	6	99.9
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	BELL LANE/WALSTEAD ROAD CSO	5	6	99.7
Severn Trent Water	Ford Brook	WALSALL CORPORATION STREET WEST CSO	6	6	100
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	DARLASTON - BENTLEY ROAD SOUTH CSO	3	5	100
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	W BROMWICH RD RECREATION GROUND CSO	3	5	100
Severn Trent Water	Ford Brook	PLECK ROAD CSO	9	4	98.2
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	MYVOD ROAD CSO	10	3	100
Severn Trent Water	River Trent	ELMBANK ROAD CSO	5	2	100
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	LORD STREET/QUEEN MARY STREET CSO	4	1	100
Severn Trent Water	Ford Brook	WALSALL BRIDGEMAN STREET CSO	6	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	JESSON ROAD/BIRMINGHAM ROAD SSO	2	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Sneyd Brook	BENTLEY MILL WAY CSO	1	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Ford Brook	WALSALL - MILTON ST-ROSAMOND ST CSO	1	0	99.8
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	JNCT OF BELL RD / BIRMINGHAM RD CSO	0	0	95
Severn Trent Water	Yew Tree Brook	YEW TREE - BRACKENDALE DRIVE CSO	0	0	100

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

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